The same yet different: Worker reports on labour practices and outcomes in a single firm across countries

Richard Freeman, Douglas Kruse and Joseph Blasi

Labour Economics, 2008, vol. 15, issue 4, 749-770

Abstract: This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work practices, performance, and attitudes toward work across countries; 2) qualitatively similar responses of workers to work practices across countries; 3) a strong link between the establishment average of employee reports on the quality of labour-management relations and establishment average measures of employee performance 4) a positive relation between average employee performance and average employee-management relations at the country level, but no relation between country level performance in the firm and measures of the extent of national labour regulations or practices.

Keywords: Labor; relations; practices; Workplace; performance; Multinational; Cross; country; comparisons; High; performance; work; systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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